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Navigating the New Era of Electric Vehicle Recovery · Towing News Now

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome one and all to the American Towing Recovery Institute podcast.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Remember this is your podcast to promote safety, education, positive public relations and networking within the professional and business-minded towing and recovery industry.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: I'm your co-host, dj Harrington, better known as the Tow Doctor, and my other host is Wes Wilburn, over 40-year towing industry veteran, the founder of American Towing Recovery Institute of Fayetteville, north Carolina.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: He has produced and conducted training and certification programs for leading towing companies, equipment distributors, towing associations, dot, fire departments, rescue, as well as military installations across the United States.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Wes has been published over 100 times in major towing publications published over 100 times in major towing publications.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Wes has developed many courses, including the most recent awareness-level course for all responders that specialize in electric vehicles as well as hybrid, natural gas and hydrogen vehicles.
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: Wes has provided insight as the main speaker for over 30 years at more than 900 training classes and has been recognized as one of America's greatest towing trainers.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: He is well known for his straightforward but down-to-earth teaching style.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: No-transcript.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: Without further ado, here's my dear friend and a great guy for our industry, wes Wilber.
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: Well, dj, as always, I appreciate your kind words.
• 2:17
  Speaker 3: You're generous with your praise, but I do appreciate you Glad you're here today.
• 2:23
  Speaker 3: You're down at the Florida show, live on the show floor there.
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: I'm here at my home office in North Carolina.
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: Sad I'm not there at the show on one level.
• 2:33
  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you, dj, we got so much going on I'm happy to not be there on another because I can barely keep up with what's happening around here.
• 2:39
  Speaker 3: How are you feeling today?
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling great.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: I had to get up early, just like Wes said.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: Folks, we're at the Florida Toe Show and the place is being set up as we speak.
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: So in the background you'll hear hammers and you'll hear people setting up their boots and the people from Toe Book have come by a minute ago.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: So little by little from Toe Book a combined minute ago, so little by little.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: So you know, in the hallway here we have Tim Smith who's coming by now and he's setting up his booth for our zoo guy.
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: So you know, you always get all these people.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: We're doing a live podcast here with Wes Wilburn.
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, hey, wes hey how you doing.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: That was Tim Smith wanting to say hi to you.
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, send my best regards.
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: Hope you all have a great show down there.
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: Hey, he said best regards from Wes and hope you have a great show.
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: He has a great product.
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: Azuga is part of Toe Book folks, as you all know.
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: If you're listening to this podcast, Azuga does all the camera work and so forth, and Tim Smith's been a good friend of Wes and of mine for many, many years.
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: So, wes, right now the people are setting up the booth here and our listeners will know that this is one that I think Wes myself you've been here many, many years.
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: This is the largest international show ever.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: There are so many different countries represented here and you know.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: I've worked for me yeah.
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: It's very true.
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  Speaker 3: It's an international show.
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  Speaker 3: Not only from North and South America, but all over the world, people come.
• 4:24
  Speaker 3: I know traditionally there's always been a large group of Canadians that come down, and it makes perfect sense.
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: They've had a winter up there and all, and it's nice to get away to Florida in the spring before it gets too hot down there.
• 4:41
  Speaker 3: How is the weather down there today, DJ?
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: It's gorgeous.
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say in the 80s and 90s it's very, very it's beautiful weather in Florida.
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: Everybody's got short-sleeved shirts on.
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: I just looked.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: You know your friends from Purpose Wrecker.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: They're in booth 778, and they were all out there busy working, just like usual Wes.
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: as you know, they're always out there doing their thing, yeah that's a lot of work to get a truck driven in from Missouri even if they pick it up at the factory from Tennessee and to get it down there and get it show ready and spotless and all dialed in.
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: That's a whole lot going on there.
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: It sure is.
• 5:30
  Speaker 3: You know, you say it's the largest international show, which I totally agree with.
• 5:35
  Speaker 3: The other thing I think we need to be aware of is that's a state towing organization of professional record operators of Florida that show together and they do good things for the towing industry on lobbying and legislation and public relations and what not.
• 5:55
  Speaker 3: So you know when you're supporting that show some of that money is going back into the industry.
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: I think that's important to point out.
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: DJ and Wes, as you know, into the industry Very much, so I think that's important to point out.
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: DJ, yes and Wes.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: As you know, these people have put it towards their legislation and their education fund.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: So the Professional Cowers Association of Florida you're right and Miller Industry donates a Hindo truck and they had $20 tickets, $10 tickets and so forth, but the proceeds go back to the association for more education of their group, which I think is fantastic absolutely.
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: I agree with that it's like what you're doing up there for Bob Gorman and his people it's going back.
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that.
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: It's like what you're doing up there for Bob Gorman and his people it's going back to the association.
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, bob Gorman, with the Empire State Towing Recovery Association and their show up in Lake George, absolutely, that's one of the reasons we'll be there in force is we want to support that kind of stuff, very important.
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: Speaking of supporting state towing associations, dj, just last week dida class for the towing recovery professionals in South Carolina we did a.
• 7:11
  Speaker 3: They had their meeting midweek, the middle of the day, midweek, which I thought was different, but at 50 to show up all over the state for their meeting.
• 7:21
  Speaker 3: At the association meeting had a small presentation in the morning and then, we did electric vehicle training for a couple of hours and they we had the Tesla vehicle there.
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: We use that as the display, the vehicle that being round, more cut out for the static display.
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: We did the free training for the members and 50, 50 towers showed up.
• 7:45
  Speaker 3: I was really impressed, plus some local fire people, folks representing one of the blankets, the fire blankets, which I'm starting to change my mind on as I'm getting more information.
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So, anyway, we had a great, great meeting with those folks and some training and looking forward to doing some more of that around North Carolina here coming up also in the next couple weeks.
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: So I guess that's the background noise we hear there going on with the show.
• 8:12
  Speaker 3: Is that what's going on, dj?
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: That's what's going on.
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: Richard came by from Precision Towing, who's an untied past podcast, and now Richard from Precision Towing, who's been on, is over talking.
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: The Fleet Net from America.
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: Fleet Net, which is owned by Cox Automotive out of Atlanta.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: The Fleet Net you know people there for the Carolinas.
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, people, they're for the Carolinas.
• 8:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, they are.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: So it's you know.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: You know all these people and they come by Wes, I want you to know.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: This morning, when I was setting up the booth here for Tote Professional and I'm handing out your literature, it's amazing how many people said I hope Wes Wilburn's doing good.
• 8:56
  Speaker 3: That's humbling to hear that DJ and, of course, pass on my best regards to everybody.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: Well, everybody asks for you.
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: They want to know how you're feeling, how you're doing, and you know it's one of these things.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: The information is here, so you just keep going.
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: Well, let me give you a good answer to tell these folks, DJ, that I'm doing just fine.
• 9:21
  Speaker 3: I'm not traveling quite as much as I did, and that seems to be a lot of the magic of me feeling better and doing better when I come around.
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many people say I look better than the last time they've seen me, especially if they haven't seen me for a year or two.
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: As my father used to say, by no means am I ready to run track, but I'm in pretty good shape and that's about the answer I can give today.
• 9:45
  Speaker 3: Still working every day just did a big chain order for some folks.
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: That's why I say I'm sad not to be down in Florida, but I'm happy in a way, because we're so busy.
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know what we'd do if I wasn't here.
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: We miss our friends down there, but we're doing good and trying to be sensible about travel.
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: Talking about travel.
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: I got a whole bunch of dates I want to talk about, but we got to take a quick break.
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: After the break we'll come back and I'll tell folks where I'm going to be, and I'm also going to tell them some of the stuff we've been so busy about.
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: Dj Fantastic.
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: Alright, so hang around until after the break, we'll be right back.
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: The EV Clever app is an app created for all responders and emergency service personnel.
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: The EV Clever app is the only app containing easy-to-navigate quick links to access manufacturer-suggested instructions for emergency situations dealing with electric and alternative fuel vehicles while on the side of the road.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: That includes hybrid, fully electric fuel cell compressed natural gas and hydrogen buses and heavy trucks.
• 10:52
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• 10:55
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• 11:03
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• 11:14
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• 11:22
  Speaker 4: And that, my friend, is how you put all the information you need at your fingertips with the EV Clever app.
• 11:28
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• 11:33
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• 11:38
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• 11:44
  Speaker 1: You have been listening to the Tow Professional on the Go podcast with Wes Wilburn and DJ Harrington.
• 11:50
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• 12:14
  Speaker 1: Wes and you've got some great listeners that really have tuned it in and turned it on, so we're really proud.
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we are.
• 12:24
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• 12:25
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• 12:31
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• 12:33
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• 12:37
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• 12:42
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• 12:57
  Speaker 1: Exactly where are some of the places you're going to be?
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: well coming up here.
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  Speaker 3: May 3rd we'll be in Chicago, illinois, at Lynch Truck they're hosting a free electric vehicle class.
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  Speaker 3: It's a three hour class.
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  Speaker 3: That's Friday evening, May 3rd.
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: May 4th and 5th we'll be in Chicago with that two-day heavy-duty towing and rotator class.
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  Speaker 3: I think we have 30-couple people signed up.
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: I think we got to top it off right at 40-ish 40-couple I think it is, so we've just got a few seats left.
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: Hey, otto's done a great job putting that class together working with Lynch Truck.
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: We're really excited to be back in Chicagoland.
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: It's been I don't know three, four, five years since I've been there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know the exact reason why exactly.
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  Speaker 3: It just kind of worked out like that, but we had some great classes up there over the years and we're looking forward to another one that weekend there, may 4th and 5th Two weekends later and that's part of the magic of what I'm doing nowadays, dj is only traveling.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: Every other weekend I'm coming to do full-blown classes.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: We're going to do that new format in Indianapolis working with Paddocks Record Service.
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: Of course, paddocks has been a great sponsor.
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: They're the ones that donated that 2023 Tesla that we use for training around the country.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll be there at Paddocks May 18th Westfield, indiana, north side of Indianapolis A one-day heavy duty on the Saturday, the 18th, and on Sunday, a one-day light duty, kind of doing that different format that we did down in Louisiana.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: That's been real popular.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Doing that different format that we did down in Louisiana.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: It's been real popular.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: And then, of course, in June we'll be at the Astra show.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: That's June 6th through 9th.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: We'll be doing demos, have a booth.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: We're doing a Friday night auction.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: For the Friday night auction, we've got a sports memorabilia collector from that area.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: That's going to bring some stuff.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: You know how those New York people people are with Sports DJ, don't you?
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: They're pretty serious about it, don't they?
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: They're serious about it big time, and that'll be excellent.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: And the Walskies?
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: You know, you remember them, don't you DJ that young couple from upstate?
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: They're wonderful people.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: They are.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: They do telling, of course, but they also do paint and body work and they've taken a little pedal car and converted it into a tow truck, which we did that years ago when Wesley was a young child.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Of course my son Wesley's in college, now college senior, but when he was a young child we made a custom pedal car and a little boat, winch, hand crank, which on it, etc.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: So I handed off that to brian winroski and brie and they made a unbelievable thing.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: It's got lights on and everything.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: It's incredible.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: That's going to be one of our auction items uh, this pedal car that a child can actually get in a pedal, and uh, I have lights and whatnot and some of the sports memorabilia and of course I got some rare homes items we're going to be bringing and all that's going to be friday night at a event they do.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: They do a little dinner, welcome dinner, and after that we do this auction, all the money going back to estra support the association.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: We're looking forward to that.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: And Then we also have in June we'll be in St Louis.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: We're doing that same format, that new.
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  Speaker 3: One day On Friday night, three-hour electric vehicle class.
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  Speaker 3: That'll be free.
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  Speaker 3: We had a cardinal towing Purpose is helping sponsor that event.
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  Speaker 3: Saturday one day heavy duty.
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  Speaker 3: Sunday one day light duty.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: That's going to be June 21st on a Friday.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: 22nd is Saturday for that heavy duty and June 23rd for that light duty class on a Sunday.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Then, dj, we're doing something special.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: I've never done this before.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: We're going up in August on 2nd and 3rd to Rockford Illinois.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: They our good friends at Maggio's.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: At Maggio's they've got a truck center.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: They do heavy towing truck repair.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: They also have a whole division of units that they use.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: They go out and respond for the railroad to train accidents, locomotive accidents, things like that.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: In the process of all this, marty Maggio designed a Caterpillar backhoe, a trackhoe that they take the arm off of, and Miller, working with John Deere, maggio's Miller Industries, puts a 75-ton tow truck boom on it and they use this machine, this john deer traco huge machine.
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  Speaker 3: I think the thing weighs 80 000 before they put the boom on it.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: They use this huge machine with this tow truck boom that's been modified for train recovery.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: So we're going to do a school up there with Marnie Maggio and myself teaching it, showing this committee's design, showing some fundamentals of train recovery.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: What do you think, dj?
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Does that sound like a fun class?
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: It sounds like a phenomenal class.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: It will really get people involved in it Our listeners.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I hope they're taking all the notes of all some of these dates, but if they don't have all the dates, they can always call, and that's what people don't understand.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they can call.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, DJ.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to cut you off, but they can call 910-747-9000.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Go visit our website.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Shortcut to our website is wwwamtowriorg.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: That'll take you to our main webpage of scheduling the equipment.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: We sell all kinds of stuff.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Information about the EV Clever app.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: That's something else, DJ.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: That thing's really taken off.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: People are really starting to use that app and understand that we can have all kinds of information at their fingertips.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: We're just pennies on a day, so to speak.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: That's exactly right Pennies on a day.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: If they start looking at this and look at it their yearly subscription it's real easy to get on E-V-C-L-E-V-E-R and it's a good offer speaking of electric vehicles, something else that's kept me real busy and I see we just need to take a break.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: But after the break I want to tell you about this electric vehicle lifting kit.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: We designed specifically for lifting electric vehicles and preventing any charge back hazard up to a thousand volts.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: So I'm going to talk about that after we come back from the break, so ask our listeners to hang around for a minute.
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• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Welcome back.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: And of course you're listening to the American Towing Recovery Institute podcast.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: That's Wilbur and DJ Harrington.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I'm down here at the Florida Trade Show, Florida.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I'm down here in Florida at the Florida Tow Show in Orlando, Florida.
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• 21:36
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• 21:42
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• 21:52
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• 22:14
  Speaker 1: You need to be there.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: All right, Wes, let me turn it over to you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, dj.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: I certainly appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: So one of the things that's kept me relatively busy the last couple weeks is we've designed a kit specifically for lifting electric vehicles, uh, that will prevent charge back, uh, by using what's called an insulator.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Now, insulator in its simplest form has been around since the 1850s and 1880s that they or the 1880s became first used with telegraph.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: I think it was just after the Civil War, so 1850s, 1860s, something like that.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: And then I think we've all seen the glass insulators that were used at the turn of the 19th century around American hell.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Some of them are still being used in rural America to this day, where they run the power cord around the glass insulator which protects the electricity from charging the wooden pole and catching it on fire.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: That's a simple form of insulator.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: You would adapt the use of insulators like a crane would use.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: A crane is holding something and it's being welded.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: An insulator is recommended.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: So there's a, there's a short in the system.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Doesn't charge back and burn out the electronics on the crane.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: We believe you should be detecting tow trucks in the same way.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: If you're picking up a crash damaged uh electric vehicle that the batteries were damaged on, we all know how they can catch fire.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Part of that catching fire is the battery shorting out, so we just think it's only wise to protect your vehicle.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: We've also used some of the 930 seconds grade 100 chain.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: So it's a lightweight system, it adjustable and even if the car is a total mess, where it's been burnt to basically a shell of a car, you can handle it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Or if it's a nice car, we've got straps that if the car is visually it doesn't look to be damaged.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: In other words, the body is not damaged.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Using a spreader bar in this system, you can pick up the car without damaging it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: So we've been through some research and development with that, phillips Cohen here in.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Fayetteville worked with us where we went out and actually picked up a vehicle that belonged to one of his office staff.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: It wasn't a full electric vehicle, it was a hybrid, but we still picked up a perfectly good car that she drove away after we picked it and moved it.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: We did the same with our wrecked Tesla, showing different ways to hook and whatnot.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: That system's been real popular.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: It gives you everything you need as a system.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: That's one of the things that's kept me real busy here the last week or two is working on those.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I thought you started to say something.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry about the background.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: You started to say something.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know what the background noise is, but I do appreciate you being a part of this at the Toe Show for us DJ.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's at the show and some of these people, you know they walk by and they're saying that we know that there's a podcast going on.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: They talk louder and louder and I wish they didn't.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I was trying to cover the mic.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: It's all good.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all good.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I just want to make sure we weren't ignoring you.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: That's all, go ahead.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I think the more you're doing with EV vehicles, our listeners need to know that the training that the Institute is doing today is today's type of training.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: You know, there's a saying you can't do yesterday's thinking, you know, or tomorrow's thinking with yesterday's planning, and your Institute is so current today it's what's going on.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: That's why the Clever app is so important for them to have.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: You know you're right, DJ, and it took me a while to get on that page to tell you about an interesting conversation I had real quick with a teller recently.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: I can't remember what format, but I guess maybe he saw some of the information on the internet, on Facebook, I'm not really sure, but contacted me and said that what I needed to do was print out the pages of the map that shows the construction of the car, because that's part of each make and model.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: There's over 700 cars and over 150 trucks, whatever we're at exactly right now.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: I had to take the data sheet, print out one or two of the data sheets on each make and model and put it into a book and sell.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: I said, well, you know, it's 700 automobiles and then heavy trucks.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: You're at 1500 pages real quick.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: And I said you know, we printed out the app.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: It's, uh, over 2000 pages of information.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: He thought I'd be better off with trying to print the ones that are the common vehicles.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: People tell this kind of information you can't handle it.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: You know it made me think of what you of information.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: You can't handle it, you know it made me think of what you were saying about.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: You can't handle today's information with yesterday's method.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Right, and you are.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: You're keeping everything current and even the people that are going to the classes today are saying you know, you used to do just plain pictures, now you have videos.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden they're sitting there and now you have a test that they can look at and work on and people are stunned because you have gone the extra mile to make the training more current today, which is very, very vital for the safety when they kiss their wives and loved ones goodbye in the morning.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Because of your training, they come home safe that night.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: So you know, even though you hear all the noise in the background from the Florida Toe Show West, I got to tell you a lot of people have come by and asked for you because there's a sign right here that says you know, this is Will Burns' podcast.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I'm passing out a lot of this information.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: That's very humbling and I appreciate those kind words.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: I really do Make sure you tell all our friends down there we appreciate them to be safe out there.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Safety is number one issue.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: We appreciate our listeners.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: It is number one telling podcast out there.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: We appreciate that more than you know.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: I want to ask all our listeners to be safe out there.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Do a good job for yourself and your family and the rest will come.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Dj, take us home.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: All right, my friends, I want all of you to know and Wes, my dear friends from Clark Park, they're here again this year.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: They came by a little while ago to say hi to me and then I wanted to know how you were and I want all the listeners to know.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Car park, as Wes knows, has been so good to me.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Every time I've had a medical bill or something.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Who do you think is there helping me pay the medical bill for car park?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: So if you ever need a park for your automobile or for your truck, go on car-parkcom and help old DJ out.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: But they're wonderful people.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: And Wes it is.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: They are wonderful people and they've been good to you and you deserve it, they sure have.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: They've been so kind to me.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: So, listeners from the Florida Tow Show in Orlando, florida, this is DJ Harrington teaching all of you, please be safe and we'll see you next on the podcast with Wes Wilburn from the American Toe and Recovery Institute podcast.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Wes, I can't thank you enough for letting me be a partner with you.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you, dj.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: God bless and be safe.